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Archive for April, 2008

take a moment to parse this

Yet more ripped from the headlines, and put into Harper’s Weekly Journal of Civilization. This particular tidbit is an entire, tragic novel in one, little sentence:

A Vidalia, Georgia, man who had married the widow of the man whose suicide provided him with a heart transplant twelve years ago committed suicide.

After you’ve taken a moment to wrap your brain around that, let’s talk about 1) the woman, and 2) the mind/body problem in philosophy.

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